Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-10

1t will pay all who intend to raise on
ions this season to call at the Brick StOr
where may be found big lot of choic
new seed at very low figures.
McGonigal & Son are kept busy selin,
railroad lands to actual settlers on tn
very liberal terms offered 10y the railroa,
company.
In the trial at Voltaire Monday nigh
II cow boys helped out the court by ar
guing with revolvers and shouting.
We never will know whether tam.
grass will grow and do well in Thoma,
county unless farmers SOW the seed
Woodruff & Tate have big lot of gras.
seeds of all kinds, and will sell in any
quantity at low figures.
Glass has been put into the door in thu
hall of court house. east side. so now ont
is not lost IN the darkness when enterin.
the hall.
Hon. W. H. Marble has returned from
his trip &c Nebraska. He took in WahOO
Ashland, Lincoln. His daughter Elsie
accompanied him. but will not return fOl
some two weeks yet.
The first of the Sod Shanty songs wa.
written by DakOtan. The answer wa.
written by F. Z. Jerome, of Russell, Kas
all, by Dr. j. w. Weld. of Colby, Kas.
and brother of H. E. Weld, the attorney
E. H. McWhinney's card will be seen
in another column. Mr.. McWhinney has
some very fine cattle, as good as found in
the eastern part of Kansas. We need
such stock in Thomas county. 1t is a
move in the right direction to get blood
ed stock.
Senators Plumb and Ingalls, have Sc
cured new mail service in Kansas to the
extent of 1870 miles. Our state legislature
passed resolutions asking for the above,
and it seems to have been very effective.
Now that steps are fast being taken to
organize st. John county, each town is
claiming the county seat. There will be
a warm contest in st. John before the
county seat is located permanently. un-
less Russell Springs is united on, it be-
ing near the center of the county.
We predicted that when we got so
many banks money would be cheaper.
and it is as cheap as it is at Oberlin, or
eastern points. Colby has now COMPETE
ton in everything, and of course lower
prices.
]. s. Warden, Vice President First
National Bank of Colby, is here this
week. looking after his large interests.
He owns third interest in the Colby
town site. He says work on brick bull
ding for the First National Bank will be
begun soon.
ED CAT:-The mitten mentioned in last
weeks CAT was lost two weeks before
found in my coal pile, and was put there
by some artful person to entrap an honest
man; but the joke did not work this time
w. j. HOWELL.
Mr.. L. D. Mason has purchased num-
Der of lots in Colby, and will erect two
residence houses Immediately. He will
move his family here and occupy one of
the houses and the other will be for rent
We welcome all such live and energetic
citizens to our town as Mr.. NJ.
Martin Bros. sold $500 worth of town
lots in two avs last week. and still they
have good many left. They have been
large investors in Colby property. and
are still buying more. They are the kind
of men thst town needs to make it
boom.
The last bridge between Oakley and
Colby was begun Tuesday by driving the
piles. Quite crowd of the citizens were
out to see the work of the pile driver
This will be done in few days, and then
all is complete. but the laying of the iron.
which will not take long.
We are told that a branch of the legal
profession went to Sherman Center and
told the unsophisticated that for $40 he
would settle the county seat question for !
Sherman Center in three days. At the |
end of two days the innOcents gazed on
his shadow in the direction of Wallace
The Times has yet to record the failure |
of any Kansas drug store.-[LeavenwOrth |
Times.
We would say that one drug store was
sold recently at mortgage sale in Rawlins |
county, Kansas, and was q total failure. !,
Give the devil his due.
The editor of an exchange says: The |
longer we run q newspaper and write |
about the people and events. the more
we realize how utterly impossible it is to
scratch every man on the spot where he
itches the most
The supreme court has issued q man.
damus compelling the county commits |
siOners OF Sherman county to count the |
votes cast at the special election of Nov. |
9Th, on the 18th inst We hope they will |
be counted this time, then right will pre- /
vail, and Eustis boom more than ever
The interstate commerce bill provides
for five commissioners appointed by the
president by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, whose salary is |
fixed at 1900 each. The commission |
appoint secretary at a salary of %, 500. |
The bill also appropriates 800, 600 for
the purposes of the bill for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1888.
Di6endafer & Lee have received some
of their implement goods and will have
all soon. They have the Waupun wind
mill. the best in existence, and Keystone
implement goods, of Sterling. Ills. They
are erecting building 14x14, two blocks
west OF the Newell House. They can
give You good bargain. J.